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Today’s GovBrief News
Fifteen Heritage Foundation employees flee to Mike Pence's nonprofit after Project 2025 architect's leader defended Tucker Carlson's interview with white supremacist Nick Fuentes.
Source: The Wall Street Journal [gift link]
December 22, 2025
Interior Department suspends five East Coast offshore wind projects citing classified national security concerns weeks after Trump said "wind is the worst" and "we don't approve windmills."
Source: ABC News
December 22, 2025
Military kills one more person in 29th boat attack since September, releasing video of vessel engulfed in flames but no evidence target was drug trafficking.
Source: The Independent
December 22, 2025
Trump announces Golden Fleet of nuclear-armed battleships named after himself, third namesake this month after U.S. Institute of Peace and Kennedy Center.
Source: NBC News
December 22, 2025
Second trove of Epstein files briefly appears on DOJ website then vanishes without explanation, including references to memos on co-conspirators prosecutors considered charging.
Source: Politico
December 22, 2025
DOJ sues District of Columbia over AR-15 restrictions months after deploying National Guard to fight crime, naming no individual plaintiffs claiming their rights were violated.
Source: The Associated Press
December 22, 2025
Former CIA Director John Brennan asks chief judge to block DOJ from steering his case to Fort Pierce division, where Aileen Cannon, who dismissed Trump's classified documents case, is the only judge.
Source: The Associated Press
December 22, 2025
Judge extends order blocking ICE from arresting Kilmar Abrego Garcia through New Year, tells DOJ the emergency leading to her restraining order was "of your own making."
Source: Courthouse News Service
December 22, 2025
Judge orders Trump administration to return 137 Venezuelans sent to El Salvador's CECOT prison or give them hearings, ruling that U.S. denied their due process rights.
Source: CBS News
December 22, 2025
Four Illinois representatives tour Broadview ICE facility with court order after being denied entry in June, find two detainees where 150 were held at peak in building with 125 capacity.
Source: The Chicago Sun-Times
December 22, 2025
White House rebuffs eight Florida Catholic bishops asking for Christmas pause on immigration enforcement, responding only that Trump is keeping his deportation promise.
Source: WPLG Miami
December 22, 2025
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) demands answers from unlisted White House ballroom donors including Roblox CEO who allegedly gave $5 million while company faces child safety lawsuits.
Source: CBS News
December 22, 2025
Twenty-one states and DC sue to block Trump from defunding Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which has returned $21 billion to consumers since 2011.
Source: The Guardian
December 22, 2025